20 STATISTICS OF EXPENDITURE AND 
greatest absolute number of stone houses, are found in the prov- 
ince of Quebec, the smallest, 0.1 per cent., in British Columbia, 
New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Isiand. The proportion of 
houses of one story only is greatest in the Maritime Provinces, 
where Nova Scotia heads the list with 85.7 per cent., and Prince 
Edward Island and New Brunswick follow with 80.8 per cent. 
and 79.9 per cent. Manitoba and Ontario show the largest 
percentages of two story houses, while Quebec and New Brun- 
swick show the highest percentages of three storied dwellings. 
(Quebec contains 73 per cent. of all the 4-storied buildings in 
Canada; and twice as high a percentage of the buildings in the 
province are of that height or higher as in any other province. 
Quebec and the North-West Territories have highest average 
number of persons under one roof (6.0), the Maritime Provinces 
coming next, and British Cotumbia giving the low number of 4.9. 
But British Columbia is the province where the largest number 
of one-roomed houses exist. Twenty-one per cent. of the houses 
there have one room only, and 58.4 per cent. have four rooms or 
less. In Manitoba, which stands next to British Columbia in the 
number of persons to the house (5.2), 12.0 per cent. of the houses 
are one roomed, and 66.5 per cent. have four or less. Prince 
Edward Island, on the other hand, which crowds 5.9 people under 
every roof, sees that they have some room under it, for less than 
one per cent. (0.9) of her houses are of one room, and 65.5 of her 
houses have more than four rooms. 
These facts are collected in the following table :— 
COMPARISON OF HoUSE ACCOMMODATION IN THE PROVINCES. 
| Persons 
Stone rick | W rooms or ss 
Ee ee Boe san a ieee ee 
Canadas ties. 3:0) Adie 2Sle5 2.9 37,1.) ae 
British Columbia..! 0.1 Due 97.6 2 5Si45 4.9 
Manitoba 0.9 3.7 95.2 | 12.0 665. “Se 
New Brunswick...| 0.1 1.6 | 98.2 2.4 35.3 | 5.8 
Nova Scotia ......| 0:2 0.3 99.4 1.0 O22 u7/ 
Ontaniorec ce eee She 21.1 75/5) 12 27.5 5.2 
Pr. Edward,Island| 0.1 0.4 99.5 | 0.9 34.7 d.9 
Quwebec.c-: 2s eae 5.0 17.8 Utoll Sal 50.0 6.0 
The Territories....} 1.0 | 1.0 96.0 19.5 73.8 6.0 
